river, and the doctor were ferried under cover of darkness, each of them separately from different piers so nobody would know what was going on. cleveland came on the boat later that night, had some cigars -- maybe the cigars were the problem to begin with -- and then the next morning the boat set sail and sailed into long island sound. and it was shortly after 12:00 that cleveland went downstairs. there was a small room they had converted into a makeshift operating theater. there was no operating table, they just had a chair that they lashed the center to the mast that was in the center of the room, and cleveland came in, and they propped up his neck and his head with some pillows. they, they did have anesthesia, they used either primarily. they also --' they are. they used nitrous oxide, but they found it didn't sedate the president enough. so they used ether, and operating with this in the close confines of a room on a yacht was probably not the best place. the operation took about 09 minutes, and what they -- 90 minutes, and what they did was they removed the tumor along with most of